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The team goes in search of Bigfoot in the wilds of Oregon.
They meet Dr. Henner Fahrenbach, a Bigfoot researcher who says that he possesses hair samples that came from "no known primate." He shows them tree branches in his lab that appear to have been twisted by a creature with greater-than-human strength. The team inspects different casts of footprints, some up to 21 inches long. Bill believes that a morphological feature in the middle of the two largest footprints constitutes evidence of a metatarsal hinge, a clear indication they are not from a human. The team watches two amateur films of alleged Bigfoot sightings, which Rob thinks would be easy to fake.
Independently, Deborah visits the foremost expert in Bigfoot research, Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who has nearly 200 Sasquatch-footprint casts in his lab. Based on the evidence he's seen, including footprints from the site of one of the amateur movies, Meldrum believes there is an extremely high probability that an animal exists. He shows Deborah how to create a thin latex peel of a cast, which picks up details of the footprint that reveal similar characteristics as are found on a human print.
The other three members of the team talk to Lou and Phil, two men who claim to have sighted Bigfoot, and find both of them credible. Lou says he saw a two-legged creature with broad shoulders from 15 feet away; Phil claims he spotted a seven-foot tall animal.
To guide an expedition into the woods, the team hires Autumn Williams, a researcher and founder of OregonBigfoot.com who claims she saw Bigfoot when she was 3 years old. She instructs them to set up camp in an area where people had reported hearing Bigfoot-like cries not long before.
They hang raw meat — beef liver, rabbit meat and bacon — as bait to attract Bigfoot, but an infrared camera shows that overnight only a deer and a flying squirrel passed by. A "track bed" that Rich and Rob set up to capture Bigfoot prints is similarly unsuccessful. After the team members go to bed, they're stirred by a commotion in the camp, followed by a whooping sound. Autumn tries to call to it, her voice echoing from the hillside, unlike the first call. Rich, who is impressed by the amount of evidence presented to the team, says there's enough to consider that a creature exists. When he hears the recorded call, he believes it's not human, sparking disagreement by Rob.
Interested to see how easily the team can fake evidence, Rob dresses up in a Bigfoot suit so that the team can record its own amateur video, and Deborah tries to make a plausible-looking footprint cast. Neither effort is very successful. When the entire team heads out at night to make Bigfoot calls, they spot no wildlife.
Rob concludes the final group discussion by pointing out that the eyewitness testimony of Bigfoot sightings, something all the team members agree is sincere, can't be explained.
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